I'm currently at What the Hack, and just a few minutes, somebody screamed, "We're on Slashdot!" Overall cheering ensured. It's really, really great here. Get some pictures at Flickr or read about it at What the Planet. And please, don't/. our wiki. Pretty pretty please.
where's the fun in controlling my computer via brain waves or thought patterns if i don't get to stick a fiber cable into my head? i want a datajack, for dodger's sake!
you see that large button in the bottom middle of the input field? that's actually a touchpad. you scroll on it like you would move a cursor with a laptop touchpad, and press it to make a selection. the folks who created this touchpad are the same who built the touchwheel for apple, by the way.
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if you had RTFA, or even read anything in the last 20 years, you would probably know that XML != RDF. there is a XML implementation of RDF, called (duh) rdfxml, but that's far from the only way to describe RDF data. I have to agree though that rdfxml is one of the worst ways to do RDF.
when I was a teen, i looked like your average geek - small, thin, belly, glasses, messy hair, clothes 20 years out of style, etc. i got mugged about 3 to 4 times a year, which is a lot for the place I live (vienna, austria). during the last years, i went through some strange times, which left me heavily tatooed on both arms. feeling that this looked a bit strange with my thin frame, i started some minor training which, after about a year, gave me quite nice arm muscles. also, due to some starting baldness, i shaved off my hair.
what i only noticed later that, every time i went out with a sleeveless shirt, nobody shady-looking even got near me. i guess what I'm trying to say is : try to look a bit more dangerous than you maybe are. no, do not get a tatoo unless you want it, but there are some easy ways of chaning your appearance that will send the signal that you'd mean business to small-time criminals.
also, i found to love cargo pants. they mostly have very deep, closable pockets, making it very hard to pickpocket you, because the thief would virtually have to dig around in your privates to get your cell phone or ipod.
for my laptop, i bought a very thin backpack that I conceal beneath a jacket or shirt-over-tshirt. it has small internal compartments where i keep my palm and ibook.
finally, i attached a belt to my mobile which is sewn to my pants. this might feel a bit weird at first, but not only is it a good way to prevent theft, it stops the damn thing from falling out when i run:)
I'm coding for a living, meaning I often sit 12-16 hours a day in front of the computer. I tried half a dozen mice for comfort and ease of use, because my right wrist started to hurt like hell. and then I found the solution - a 10 euro mousepad with a gel pad. you rest your wrist on it while using the mouse. within days, my wrist pain was gone. sure, it somehow hinders your movement, meaning I now suck at unreal tournament, but that's a small price to pay.
I guess you should be able to pick up a gel mousepad (and a matching keyboard pad) at any computer store, if not, here is a link.
in accordance with the national defense act and various others, all new documents have to be made terrorist-proof. therefore, the standard font for printed material from now on will be wingdings.
you bet osama can't read that!
jabber is an open source im system with multichat and ssl capabilities. just run your own server somewhere, let your users register with it, and presto!
jabber has built-in SASL/TLS support, is proven to work just great in intranets, and is free as in beer and speech.
there's also a variety of clients for linux, windows and mac os x, <shameless ad> the best being psi;) </shameless ad>
for gentoo, you can emerge (use) the "vanilla-sources" which is the completely plain stock kernel, or the "gentoo-sources", that are not as sota as the vanilla ones, but heavily patched.
thanks timothy. now I have to travel back in time, and kill you the very moment you plan to write this article so that I can enjoy the book from cover to cover WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT WILL FUCKING END.
and then I will have to wipe my memory. I hate that. it always gives me a rash.
announcing europe's second flash mob, today in vienna, austria. meeting point is the tramway/bus-station "Volkstheater", next to the Palais Epstein, at 15:00 local time.
yeah, I know, this should go on more flashmob-related pages, but you meddering kids/.ed all of them:(
I've been living in sweden (southern sweden) long enough to forsee that this law will have the same fascinating impact as the very harsh drug-, youth curtain- and traffic laws in sweden.
none at all;)
sweden is known europe-wide for a very strict law reglementation. but, it is a land with more than enough democratic culture to differ between real dangers to society, and laws simply passed to appease the industry. just remember norway's decss-hacker jon johansen. by the written law, he could have ended up in prison for years. but the judge fined him to, what, 30 days community service on probation? sweden and norway are very similar in this, although inhabitants of both lands would kill me if I ever stated this in public:)
The whole term is wrong. In WWII, the rank for Germans was "Sturmbannführer", meaning, roughly, "Carrier of the Storm banner".... this can be put in context with German propaganda calling the war on the world the "Volkssturm" (People's storm).
I feel the need to correct this, and risk my good karma by putting up something that, in peace time, would be labeled "+1 informative", and at the moment will most likely end up as "-1 flamebait". oh well, here we go.
the german "Bundesruefstelle fuer jugendgefaehrdende Schriften" (federal department for the control of youth-endangering writings) maintains a list of products that are deemed "adult material". These products may neither be advertised, nor openly sold, but after an ID check may be sold to anyone age 18 or higher. these products fall into the following categories :
hard pornography
violence
drug abuse
political extremist material
the first computer game ever to end up on this list was A10:Tank Killer. Other games include the Doom, Quake and Command and Conquer series. The Bundespruefstelle lost a lot of power over the years, but got a lot of influence after the Erfurt school shootings.
and now for the reality check : as much as 18-year olds are able to obtain beer in the united states, 16-year olds can get a copy of C&C:Generals in Germany. if they can't buy it in their software shop of choice, they just get it per mailorder from Austria or Holland. the whole reason of this restrictive list is that, after WWII, there was a meme shift in Germany. The fascism meme (fascism as in "power trough violence") was replaced by the democracy meme, and most Germans/Western Europeans think that a game/book/movie that promotes the killing of human beings is not suited for kids.
my point : this restriction list is not really potent, and has existed long before the current situation, even in a time when Germany and the US where close buddies. So don't see this as some kind of America-bashing. If we "old Europeans" accept the American attitude about gun ownage, you might as well accept ours.
I can see the next big US laws right in front of my brain...
5-10 years for drinking imported beer
15-25 years for thinking impure thoughts
lifetime for knowing an arab, or knowing someone who knows an arab, or being related to someone who once went out for lunch with the mother-in-law of a guy who once heard there was such a thing as arabia
death sentence for smoking anything besides marlboro, or voting for someone except dubya.
hey, why not just build a wall around the US? I mean, of the maybe 300 million people there, I'm sure at least 95% have comitted a crime, thought about comitting a crime, or are able to spell the word "crime" without help.
ask any chemist you know about the anarchist's cookbook, or show them if they don't know it - 40% of the stuff in it doesn't work, 40% will blow up yourself, 15% are urban legends, and the rest may work if you do it right.. if you are interested, get some real books, like "Explosives" by Rudolf Meyer...
be warned however, creating explosives, or drugs for that matter, is nothing a chemistry kit could archieve most of the time.. the only synthetic drug I am aware of that could be made this way would be GHB, which can be easily produced by mixing two chemicals, then heating them carefully. As for explosives.. creating things that go boom without the exact knowledge of what you do often result in the quick and impressive end of the creator's life.:)
well, here in good old europe (at least in austria, where I live) most of atm's run on os/2... there were some experiments to use windoze 95/98 for them, but the resulting bluescreens on atm's quickly ended that experiment.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm currently at What the Hack, and just a few minutes, somebody screamed, "We're on Slashdot!" Overall cheering ensured. It's really, really great here. Get some pictures at Flickr or read about it at What the Planet. And please, don't /. our wiki. Pretty pretty please.
where's the fun in controlling my computer via brain waves or thought patterns if i don't get to stick a fiber cable into my head? i want a datajack, for dodger's sake!
you see that large button in the bottom middle of the input field? that's actually a touchpad. you scroll on it like you would move a cursor with a laptop touchpad, and press it to make a selection. the folks who created this touchpad are the same who built the touchwheel for apple, by the way.
if you had RTFA, or even read anything in the last 20 years, you would probably know that XML != RDF. there is a XML implementation of RDF, called (duh) rdfxml, but that's far from the only way to describe RDF data. I have to agree though that rdfxml is one of the worst ways to do RDF.
have a look at N3 or ntriples for starters.
when I was a teen, i looked like your average geek - small, thin, belly, glasses, messy hair, clothes 20 years out of style, etc. i got mugged about 3 to 4 times a year, which is a lot for the place I live (vienna, austria). during the last years, i went through some strange times, which left me heavily tatooed on both arms. feeling that this looked a bit strange with my thin frame, i started some minor training which, after about a year, gave me quite nice arm muscles. also, due to some starting baldness, i shaved off my hair. what i only noticed later that, every time i went out with a sleeveless shirt, nobody shady-looking even got near me. i guess what I'm trying to say is : try to look a bit more dangerous than you maybe are. no, do not get a tatoo unless you want it, but there are some easy ways of chaning your appearance that will send the signal that you'd mean business to small-time criminals. also, i found to love cargo pants. they mostly have very deep, closable pockets, making it very hard to pickpocket you, because the thief would virtually have to dig around in your privates to get your cell phone or ipod. for my laptop, i bought a very thin backpack that I conceal beneath a jacket or shirt-over-tshirt. it has small internal compartments where i keep my palm and ibook. finally, i attached a belt to my mobile which is sewn to my pants. this might feel a bit weird at first, but not only is it a good way to prevent theft, it stops the damn thing from falling out when i run :)
actually, a forever expanding universe will one day be consumed by entropy, making life impossible. so if this is true, it's grave news for life.
nobody can eat 50 eggs.
I'm coding for a living, meaning I often sit 12-16 hours a day in front of the computer. I tried half a dozen mice for comfort and ease of use, because my right wrist started to hurt like hell. and then I found the solution - a 10 euro mousepad with a gel pad. you rest your wrist on it while using the mouse. within days, my wrist pain was gone. sure, it somehow hinders your movement, meaning I now suck at unreal tournament, but that's a small price to pay.
I guess you should be able to pick up a gel mousepad (and a matching keyboard pad) at any computer store, if not, here is a link.
hmmm... I really should be worried that I was constantly nodding while reading your posting..
in accordance with the national defense act and various others, all new documents have to be made terrorist-proof. therefore, the standard font for printed material from now on will be wingdings. you bet osama can't read that!
jabber is an open source im system with multichat and ssl capabilities. just run your own server somewhere, let your users register with it, and presto!
;) </shameless ad>
jabber has built-in SASL/TLS support, is proven to work just great in intranets, and is free as in beer and speech.
there's also a variety of clients for linux, windows and mac os x, <shameless ad> the best being psi
for gentoo, you can emerge (use) the "vanilla-sources" which is the completely plain stock kernel, or the "gentoo-sources", that are not as sota as the vanilla ones, but heavily patched.
thanks timothy. now I have to travel back in time, and kill you the very moment you plan to write this article so that I can enjoy the book from cover to cover WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT WILL FUCKING END. and then I will have to wipe my memory. I hate that. it always gives me a rash.
announcing europe's second flash mob, today in vienna, austria. meeting point is the tramway/bus-station "Volkstheater", next to the Palais Epstein, at 15:00 local time. yeah, I know, this should go on more flashmob-related pages, but you meddering kids /.ed all of them :(
I've been living in sweden (southern sweden) long enough to forsee that this law will have the same fascinating impact as the very harsh drug-, youth curtain- and traffic laws in sweden.
;)
:)
none at all
sweden is known europe-wide for a very strict law reglementation. but, it is a land with more than enough democratic culture to differ between real dangers to society, and laws simply passed to appease the industry. just remember norway's decss-hacker jon johansen. by the written law, he could have ended up in prison for years. but the judge fined him to, what, 30 days community service on probation? sweden and norway are very similar in this, although inhabitants of both lands would kill me if I ever stated this in public
I'm using QWERTZ, you insensitive clod!
a "Sturmbahn" would actually be a wind canal ;)
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the german "Bundesruefstelle fuer jugendgefaehrdende Schriften" (federal department for the control of youth-endangering writings) maintains a list of products that are deemed "adult material". These products may neither be advertised, nor openly sold, but after an ID check may be sold to anyone age 18 or higher. these products fall into the following categories :
- hard pornography
- violence
- drug abuse
- political extremist material
the first computer game ever to end up on this list was A10:Tank Killer. Other games include the Doom, Quake and Command and Conquer series. The Bundespruefstelle lost a lot of power over the years, but got a lot of influence after the Erfurt school shootings.and now for the reality check : as much as 18-year olds are able to obtain beer in the united states, 16-year olds can get a copy of C&C:Generals in Germany. if they can't buy it in their software shop of choice, they just get it per mailorder from Austria or Holland. the whole reason of this restrictive list is that, after WWII, there was a meme shift in Germany. The fascism meme (fascism as in "power trough violence") was replaced by the democracy meme, and most Germans/Western Europeans think that a game/book/movie that promotes the killing of human beings is not suited for kids.
my point : this restriction list is not really potent, and has existed long before the current situation, even in a time when Germany and the US where close buddies. So don't see this as some kind of America-bashing. If we "old Europeans" accept the American attitude about gun ownage, you might as well accept ours.
I can see the next big US laws right in front of my brain...
5-10 years for drinking imported beer
15-25 years for thinking impure thoughts
lifetime for knowing an arab, or knowing someone who knows an arab, or being related to someone who once went out for lunch with the mother-in-law of a guy who once heard there was such a thing as arabia
death sentence for smoking anything besides marlboro, or voting for someone except dubya.
hey, why not just build a wall around the US? I mean, of the maybe 300 million people there, I'm sure at least 95% have comitted a crime, thought about comitting a crime, or are able to spell the word "crime" without help.
Definitely not. If there was oil on Mars, Dubya would have long declared war on it. :)
be warned however, creating explosives, or drugs for that matter, is nothing a chemistry kit could archieve most of the time.. the only synthetic drug I am aware of that could be made this way would be GHB, which can be easily produced by mixing two chemicals, then heating them carefully. As for explosives.. creating things that go boom without the exact knowledge of what you do often result in the quick and impressive end of the creator's life. :)
well, I prefer a moon orbiting me over an orbit mooning me. damn, those cheesy jokes are getting into my mind! can't..resist..must..press...submit..
well, here in good old europe (at least in austria, where I live) most of atm's run on os/2... there were some experiments to use windoze 95/98 for them, but the resulting bluescreens on atm's quickly ended that experiment.
well, this law applies to russia because of what I call the counterstrike factor... I could now go into lengths to explain it, but in a nutshell :
US Corporate Money 0wnz0rs y00.